Kanye West Posts Photo Showing He Uses The Pirate Bay

Kanye’s lack of self awareness can be incredible.

Kanye West continued his sharing ways last night, posting a photo of his computer screen as he gathers inspiration for the making of Turbo Grafx 16. The photo itself simply shows Kanye’s computer screen playing “Death With Dignity” by Sufjan Stevens, but internet sleuths were quick to notice some of the other tabs Mr. West had open on his computer. Porn? Nope. Kanye had a tab open of The Pirate Bay.

Naturally, the internet had a field day. For one, rumors were floating around that Kanye West wanted to sue The Pirate Bay because The Life Of Pablowas downloaded on the torrent site over 500,000 times. Realistically that number is probably closer to 1 million by now, so the fact that Kanye would lack as so much self-awareness that he didn’t realize the hypocrisy of illegally downloading is… pretty unsurprising from Kanye. People also roasted Yeezy for downloading the specific software he had open in a another tab – Serum, a synthesizer and visualizer that costs less than $200. It’s not clear if he was downloading Sufjan Stevens or audio software, but either way it’s a pretty bad look.

Notably, among the people calling Kanye out was electronic producer Deadmau5. Always outspoken on Twitter, Deadmau5 was also among the artists present when Tidal launched. He tweeted at Kanye, “What the fuck @kanyewest … Can’t afford serum? Dick.” The fact that one of it’s original investors is making fun of another doesn’t really bode well for Tidal, especially in light of their recent turmoil.